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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

The Quanta Podcast

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The Importance of Observation in Quantum Field Theory

This approach is called perturbative QFT in the sense that you allow for small changes or perturbations in a free field. It's also extremely useful for verifying experiments, says Raisner. But if you keep making the interactions stronger, the perturbative approach eventually overheats, he adds.

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